Transcripts For KPIX CBS This Morning 20140806 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For KPIX CBS This Morning 20140806

The second american infected with ebola back in the United States. Nancy writebol admitted to Emory University hospital in atlanta. Hawaii is preparing for a rare double threat. Hurricane iselle could make land tomorrow and right behind that is hurricane julio. A dangerous landslide sent residents rushing to safety. An insider attack at a military Training Center in afghanistan killed an american general, Harold Greene the highest ranking american officer to be killed in combat since vietnam. United Airlines Flight from newark to brussels was forced to make an Emergency Landing after fire broke out in a gallie. Chaos after two tour buses crashed in times square. 14 people were injured. Everybody was running. Everybody was running for cover. A woman described as a cereal stowaway was able to get past security and able to board a southwest flight to l. A. X. Researchers took a new underwater vehicle to an island off mexico. The hunter became the hunted. Ouch. All that the man really didnt mind the gap. Fellow commuters say lets get this mans leg. Oh look at this guy. He takes them out. What . Oh, wow. And all that matters becky hammon has been hired by the San Antonio Spurs. The first fulltime female assistant coach in the history of the nba. Im ready to be treated just as any other assistant coach. Pop will be yelling at me with the rest of them. Your choice. Promote my book or i wont appear on your show. But you have already appeared on my show. No this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. We begin with an ominous new reminder of the threat from computer hackers. A report this morning claims a russian gang is holding a massive list of stolen online records. Security experts believe it is the biggest combined data theft in history. According to a milwaukee called hold security the thieves stole 1. 2 billion user names and passwords and 524 million email addresses. They found the information on 420,000 websites and this is many times bigger than the Security Breach we told you about late last year at target stores. Tim stevens, editor at large from our partner cnet is with us. Tim, good morning. Good morning. This breach is so massive, how do i know if some of my emails or passwords have been stolen . Unfortunately theres no way to know right now. We dont know which sites have within been accessed. 420,000 have been exposed and thats pretty disconcerting. We assume that they probably have. Assume every password is no longer safe and you should go through and change them all again. It is that massive. Its huge. Just to underloin thatine that everybody should change their passwords. There will be a site set up to see if your User Accounts have been exposed but we dont know when thats going to be appearing. In the interim, you certainly dont want that information hanging out there. So you should go out and exchange every password youve got. Whats the reaction from the Tech Community . You have this russian cyber gang able to haul in this much sensitive information. Yeah, its definitely disconcerting but its the sort of thing weve seen in the past. These are not new attacks. Its not a new vulnerability but just the same weve seen in the past but on a massive scale. So is there technology coming that will prevent this thing . There are initiatives in place. Theyre trying to put together a better system. The problem we have now is each individual site on the internet is managing their own security and own credentials. We need a central repository where we can have everything stored in one place and have a much more Strong Security biometric security and more secure way of logging in so its more difficult for this information to get exposed. As long as its scattered all across the internet its very easy to go around and gather massive amounts of information like this. Important information. Tim stevens, thank you. Are some countries more tolerant of this . For example, coming from china or coming from russia. When youre crossing country lines, its very difficult to track down these hackers and very difficult to put them in jail. If it were all domestic, it would be very easy for the government to track them down and put them in jail. But as you talk about International Crime syndicates it gets difficult. Now to the historic Ebola Outbreak and a prime example of how the u. S. Government is not taking any chances, a commercial flight that landed at new yorks Kennedy Airport was held there for a brief time tuesday. The plane carried a sick passenger from abu dhabi. They checked to make sure he wasnt infected and he was only suffering from seizures. We just learned ebola took 45 more lives this month. The death toll in west africa stands at 932. The two american patients are making progress this morning. Nancy writebol is now in the same Isolation Unit as fellow aid worker dr. Kent brantly. Our dr. Jon lapook is at the hospital. Jon, good morning. Reporter dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol are right here in a secure Isolation Unit and now were learning more about the experimental medication both of them received before leaving liberia and coming to the United States. Nancy writebol had to be wheeled into Emory University hospital on a gurney by two paramedics in full tyvek suits, a sign of how serious her infection remains. Although the 59yearold didnt walk in as kent brantly did three days earlier, it was still a scene that lifted her familys spirits. The president of sim, the Christian Aid Group she works with read a statement from her husband, david. A week ago he said we were thinking about a possible funeral arrangements. Yet we kept our faith. Reporter writebol arrived in atlanta late Tuesday Morning after a nearly 15hour journey from monrovia the capital of liberia. At emory, writebol will be able to speak to her family through a window. Dr. Bruce ribner leads the medical team trying to save the lives of both victims. They can have kidney failure, they can have liver failure, lung failure, they can have bleeding problems. Our job is keeping the patients alive until such time as their bodies defenses can control the virus. Reporter according to his wife amber, brantly, tlaerks is in good spirits and continues to improve. Before they left liberia brantly and writebol received zmapp, created with antibodies harvested by lab mice and mass produced using tobacco plants in kentucky. It was the decision of the doctors and kent and nancy whether or not it would be administered. Reporter one of the scientists who helped develop zmapp told us that human trials are due in 2015. One of the challenges is right now its in very short supply so its going to be very important to figure out a way to make sure theres enough of it to go around. Charlie. Lets check in now with dr. Anthony fauci. Doctor, good morning. Good morning. Tell us how effective this experimental serum is or may be. Well certainly the reports were getting from the physicians who are taking care of the patients are indicating that seemingly associated with the administration of this cocktail of antibodies that there was some significant improvement. So it is likely that there is some effect. The exact effect of the intervention versus the normal recovery is very difficult to determine when youre dealing with just a single or two patients. But apparently there is some positive effect. Certainly there was good effect in the Animal Studies that antiseeded its being put into humans. What other options are there . Really just taking care of the patient in terms of systemically and symptomatically making sure theyre well hydrated and making sure their organ dysfunction, if they have any, is taken care of. Dr. Fauci, the centers for Disease Control remains confident they can stop ebola from spreading here in the United States, but what about the situation in africa . How worried about that are you . Well its really a very serious situation in africa because as the cdc and dr. Frieden and others have said that with Good Health Care delivery and good capability of isolation and using the kinds of techniques and capabilities that we have, we can stop this outbreak. But unfortunately in africa the Health Care Delivery system is really rather dysfunctional and its really very difficult. The people who are working there are working under very difficult circumstances. The customs in the country also lead to more transmission. And dr. Fauci, i know you well. I know you know a lot about infectious diseases. Is it possible though given this that we could see cases here in the United States . It is certainly conceivable that someone will get infected in a west african country, get on a plane without symptoms and then arrive here and actually get sick with ebola, but we feel very confident that if that happens, well be able to contain that by putting the person under the appropriate isolation, the same way as were seeing whats going on in emory in atlanta. So the idea of there being an outbreak, were very confident that will not happen. Dr. Fauci, good to see you, thank you so much. Good to be with you. And a small fire forced a united 777 to make an Emergency Landing in eastern canada. Flight 999 had to stop in halifax, nova scotia last night. The pilot diverted the jet carrying 233 passengers after the fire broke out in the galley. They could see smoke and smell chemicals coming from the back of the cabin. The fire was put out before the jet landed. Everyone safe. Passengers continued their trip hours later on a different plane. An air canada passenger had a medical emergency. A Southwest Airlines passenger is in jail this morning accused of sneaking onto her flight to los angeles. Police say Marilyn Hartman has a history of trying to fly without a ticket. On monday she allegedly snuck past security in san jose and after landing, the crew learned hartman had no proof that she had paid for her trip. San jose is the same airport where a teenager climbed over the perimeter fence in april and then rode in the wheel well of a jetliner flying to hawaii. And off the coast of hawaii the fifth pacific hurricane of the season formed this morning. Julio is now one of two hurricanes expected to make a direct strike on the Hawaiian Islands as soon as tomorrow. In honolulu theyre stocking up on supplies. Meteorologist craig selzer is watching the rare double hurricanes. Craig, good morning. Good morning. And good morning to our viewers in the west. Hurricane iselle continues to move toward the Hawaiian Islands this morning. Category 2 storm, originally a category 4. By the time it reaches the islands, a strong tropical storm, but torrential downpours. Hurricaneforce wind gusts expected thursday into the friday time frame. Right behind iselle is hurricane julio. Julio strengthening moving to the west overnight and will forecast on a similar track, taking it near or north of the Hawaiian Islands by late in the weekend. So potentially a tropical onetwo punch going on there. This pattern creating these hurricanes is also dominating the western u. S. With the Drought Conditions and hot temperatures forecast to continue. Really no end in sight there. All right craig, thank you. Heavy rain in North Salt Lake city triggered what many feared for months a massive landslide. Type lapse video shows the hillside crumbling. It crushed a 3,000 square foot home. No one was hurt but 27 families were cleared out. Most should be allowed back today. New fears this morning that russia is on the brink of sending forces into ukraine. Nato said today russia has built up about 20,000 combatready troops on ukraines eastern border. The concern, russia will send in troops claiming its a humanitarian or peace mission. The Government Air strikes in the eastern city of of donetsk overnight targeted prorussian separatists. Sergeant bowe bergdahl, the former p. O. W. Is preparing to meet with Army Investigators this morning. These new photos show him preparing for his interview yesterday with his lawyer. The army wants to know what happened when the soldier left his post in afghanistan five years ago. He was then captured by the taliban. After his release in may, some critics accused bergdahl of deliberately leaving his post. A twostar army general shot to death in afghanistan is being remembered this morning. Major geeral Harold Greene is the highest ranking american officer killed in a combat zone since vietnam. Greenes killer hid in a bathroom before opening fire. David martin is at the pentagon with more on the attack at afghanistans officer training academy. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The investigation into how and why this happened is just beginning, but what we know so far is that Major General green was gunned down by a man believed to be an afghan army soldier. In other words, by a supposed ally. Major general harold green, he went by harry, was deputy chief of the training and assistance command. The organization in charge of training and equipping the afghan army. It is the linchpin of the american strategy to pull its combat troops out of afghanistan by the end of this year and turn the fighting over to the afghans. Greene was one of several u. S. And allied officers inspecting the Afghan Military academy. The delegation was mowed down when the alleged shooter opened fire with a machine gun from the window of a nearby building. Before troops assigned to guard the visitors could return fire greene had been killed and eight other u. S. Soldiers wounded, four of them seriously. A german and afghan general also were wounded. U. S. Officials say it appears the shooter fired indiscriminately into the crowd and was not deliberately trying to kill an american general. Afghanistan is still a war zone. So its impossible to eliminate, completely eliminate that threat, i think. Reporter it was the third socalled insider attack this year, incidents in which men dressed in afghan Army Uniforms have opened fire on u. S. And allied troops. There were 48 insider attacks in 2012. But that number was cut to 15 last year and 3 so far this year. In part because of better vetting of Afghan Soldiers and in part because the u. S. Assigns soldiers specifically to guard against insidary tax. General greene was not a combat officer but an engineer on his first tour of duty in a war zone. He is now one of more than 6600 american servicemen and women who have lost their lives in iraq and afghanistan. Charlie. Thank you, david. Its a tragedy. How do you stop people despite all precaution theyll slip through. These insider attacks, and general greenes father is 85 years old, still lives in upstate new york just lost his wife last year. He said very hard to lose a child and have to bury your own son. This is a family thats dedicated themselves to military service. The ceasefire in gaza is Still Holding after more than 24 hours. Residents are out in the streets of the battered territory this morning. Negotiators in cairo, egypt, are working on a longterm peace agreement. Egyptian Officials Say the talks are moving forward and they are optimistic. A cbs news poll out this morning finds 34 of americans blame hamas for the fighting in gaza. 6 blame israel but the largest number, 47 , blame both sides. The same poll finds president obama with a 41 job Approval Rating and half of americans disapprove of how hes handling the israelipalestinian crisis. A new york city afternoon for tourists turned to chaos in just moments. You can see this webcam caught the moments right after two tour buses crashed. A streetlight toppled hitting a few pedestrians. 15 people were hurt. This morning one of the bus drivers is under arrest. Vinita nair is in times square with the aftermath. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Thats right, one of the bus drivers has since been arrested for driving while ability impaired. Police believe that he was either on drugs or another controlled substance when he hit a tour bus that was parked very close to this very busy sidewalk. The crossroads of the world became the crossroads of chaos, when two doubledecker tour buses collided tuesday afternoon. This earth cam video shows people dodging for cover, as a light pole crashes to the ground narrowly missing one man and crushing a baby carriage. Miraculously the child inside survived. The baby was crying. There was a pram that was all squashed. Reporter Firefighters Police and emergency crews were quickly on site tending to the crowd. Both buses, normally packed with tourists, were mostly empty. A tour guide aboard one of the buses was seriously injured. 14 pedestrians suffered minor injuries. Everybody was running. Everybody was running for cover. Reporter witnesses snapped pictures and videos of the scene, posting them on social media. Thats the young lady, the africanamerican, thats laying on the ground and these people are attending to her. Reporter Orville Anderson was in times square celebrating his birthday. I saw the pole going over and then we i got up and rushed to the site and looked. When i looked i saw some people on the floor. We had a few possible broken bones but that was the worst there were. Everybody, like i said is stable

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